Joshua 4:5

New King James Version

and Joshua said to them: “Cross over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and each one of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel,

Cross References

Joshua 4:4

Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the children of Israel, one man from every tribe;

Joshua 4:6

that this may be a sign among you when your children ask in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

Genesis 31:46

Then Jacob said to his brethren, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.

Exodus 24:4

And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Deuteronomy 9:1

“Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

Deuteronomy 27:2

And it shall be, on the day when you cross over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, that you shall set up for yourselves large stones, and whitewash them with lime.

Joshua 22:10

And when they came to the region of the Jordan which is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan—a great, impressive altar.